After listening to the village official's quiet explanation, the faces of the people in the program group were as if a paint palette had been overturned, and the colors were so beautiful.
Jing Cheng and the other two looked at each other, and their expressions were indescribable.
Fu Le's face was filled with disgust. He covered his mouth with his hand and quietly mouthed to the two people: "How disgusting."
Qin Yan coughed lightly and winked at him, signaling him to be careful, as there was a child nearby who was peeping at them.
Jing Cheng and Fu Le turned their heads to look, and sure enough, in a field not far away, there were a few little kids in open-crotch pants, staring blankly at the people from the program crew.
The youngest child was probably only two or three years old, a little boy with hair like a bunch of weeds, spread out in a mess on his head. The clothes he wore seemed to be made up of several pieces of rags, so dirty that it was almost impossible to tell the original color.
The child looked at them in astonishment, his mouth slightly open, drooling all over, the saliva dripping onto his clothes.
Seeing the three people looking at them, the other children seemed to be frightened. They jumped up and down, turned around in panic, and didn't dare to look at them anymore. They ran away.
Jing Cheng & Qin Yan & Fu Le: “…………”
Fu Le opened his mouth and said in disbelief: "Do they think we are monsters? Are they so scared?"
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Qin Yan glanced at him and said venomously, "You look like a monster, but we don't."
"..."Fu Le's mouth twitched. His appearance was indeed not as good as Qin Yan and Jing Cheng, but no matter what, he had regular facial features and could be considered a "handsome guy". How come he looked like a monster?
Jing Cheng hesitated and said, "I think there's something wrong with that kid."
"Who?" Fu Le asked puzzledly.
Qin Yan stood with his arms folded, his eyes indifferently sweeping over the little boy. The other children ran away, and he was the only one left there, standing there blankly, as if he would not react to anything happening in the outside world.
"He's a mentally retarded child." Qin Yan said calmly, "Didn't Village Officer Zhang say that just now? The blood relationships of the people in this village are mixed, probably because of inbreeding."
Jing Cheng frowned when he heard this and said softly, "Stupid."
"Isn't that just stupidity?" Fu Le smacked his lips and said with emotion, "I've never seen anything like this in my life. In this day and age, there are still such things."
Professor Fu frowned and said, "What a mess."
Xin Guang and Yang Hong were fetching water to wash up and had no idea what everyone was talking about.
An Qi looked at the village official in shock: "Polygamy...are we still living in a feudal society?"
Queen Mao pushed her from behind and reminded her in a low voice: "Shh, I'm still here."
The women who came to deliver the meals wiped the table with numb expressions and helped everyone clean the old house inside and out. They said nothing and had no reaction to Angie's complaints.
An Qi gathered her hair awkwardly and fell silent.
The program crew didn't expect that Village Official Zhang would bring people to deliver meals to them. After all, he had told everyone before that the people in the village were very xenophobic. They had already made good disguises, and all the conspicuous video equipment had been installed by them, leaving only ultra-micro cameras and micro microphones, which were pinned to everyone's collar.
In response to this, the village official explained that not all families in the village were xenophobic, the women were better, while the men were the most aggressive.
He also advised everyone not to act alone, and to stay away from men in the village if they met them, even if they were "relatives" of Village Official Zhang.
Not everyone respects him as a "village official".
Breakfast was a simple meal of a few home-cooked side dishes and steaming steamed buns. The side dishes were all grown by the villagers themselves. They were all natural and pollution-free, and tasted fresh and refreshing. Everyone was very satisfied with the meal.
After dinner, everyone changed into the simplest clothes as requested by the village official. The women all appeared on camera without makeup and followed him to visit "Mr. Peng".
Jing Cheng and the other two didn't like being on camera, so they walked at the end.
They noticed that one of the women who had brought them food, after cleaning up, walked up to the little boy standing in the field. After watching him silently for a while, she squatted down, took the boy's shoulder, and said a few words to him.
The boy stared at her blankly without any reaction.
The woman's expression suddenly became ferocious, and she raised her hand and slapped the little boy.
With a crisp "pa--" sound, the little boy fell to the ground, his face confused, but he didn't cry.
"Hey! Why is this woman like this!" Fu Le said anxiously, taking a few steps forward, as if he was going to question the other party.
Jing Cheng quickly stopped him and shook his head, saying, "That's his mother, don't go over there."
Although the woman's voice was soft, he heard it.
"Why are you still not awake? What should your mother do?" The grief and despair in the woman's tone when she said this were enough to make anyone cry - even though Jing Cheng was the only listener.
Fu Le was surprised and said, "...Is there a mother like this? Beating her child for no reason?"
Qin Yan noticed that the other women who came with the woman all stood aside with their arms folded, and no one went over to stop them.
Generally speaking, in the same village, if someone beats a child outside, there will be more or less people coming to persuade the child to stop, let alone such a young child.
Those cold-eyed looks were as if... this scene happened all the time, and everyone else was used to it, and even enjoyed the fun.
Qin Yan frowned and thought, this village is really weird everywhere.
Fortunately, the woman only slapped the child once and then stopped. She pulled the little boy up from the ground, held him in her arms, looked around, and walked away in a hurry with her head down like a thief.
The moment she raised her head, Jing Cheng and the others clearly saw that the woman's eyes were red and tears were rolling in them.
All three of them stood there in a daze.
After the woman left with the child, the remaining women began chatting while eating melon seeds.
"Ah, Ah Xiang is really unfortunate. How many children does this have?"
"I remember it was the fourth one. What's wrong with their family? They only have stupid sons! Her husband is such a loser..."
"What does it have to do with her man? I think she has a problem! Isn't Alan also from their family? How come she didn't give birth to a silly boy?"
"What a pity! Pah!" A skinny woman spat out the melon seed shells in her mouth and said in a strange tone, "But it's also thanks to her giving birth to stupid sons every year, so that our children don't suffer! For this, I have to thank her."
"Puh, puh, puh! What are you talking about!" The woman next to her pushed her and screamed, "The child has been given to the gods to be a fairy boy, to bless the people in our village!"
"What kind of fairy child is this? You can't even see the ashes of a dead person. What kind of fairy child is this? Why don't you even look at the tablet Mr. Peng has set up for the child?"
"Hush... Don't let your man hear this. What if he does something stupid and sends you to the gods? Don't you want to live at such a young age?"
The thin woman looked a little unnatural when she heard this, but she still snorted and said, "The one in our family is a hottie! He wouldn't dare!"
But even though he was cursing, he changed the subject.
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Send it to the gods?
Jing Cheng raised his eyebrows and pondered it in his mind.
Combining what they said, he almost figured it out.
It turns out that their so-called "inviting gods" was not through the medium of "Mr. Peng", but through the stupid children in the village, and those who were used as mediums would eventually die, which was a sacrifice.
No wonder "A Xiang" was in so much pain. She had given birth to four stupid sons. The first three should have been sent to be "fairy children", but the fourth son was also stupid and destined to be "sacrificed".
Boys and girls are the best candidates for sacrifice in the Eighteen Hades Formation, especially those under the age of seven. The innate energy in their bodies has not dissipated, and there are very few impurities in their bodies, so they can be considered "half-spiritual bodies". Moreover, they are ignorant of worldly affairs and only know how to submit, but not resist.
It's the equivalent of... sacrificing oneself willingly.
No wonder this village is so full of vitality and there is almost no resentment.
Resentment will largely lead to the failure of the formation. The person who set up the formation had already thought of this, so he chose the "silly child" to be the pulse eye... Maybe he accidentally discovered the chaotic population relations in this village, or he manipulated the current chaotic situation. In short, he succeeded.
It seems that the person behind this is very thoughtful and should not be underestimated.
He is a ruthless person.
Just as Jing Cheng was deep in thought, everything in front of him suddenly went dark.
He stopped and found that Qin Yan had stretched out his hand to block his view.
Jing Cheng tilted his head and looked at him in confusion.
Qin Yan asked in a deep voice: "What are you thinking about? You look so ugly."
Jing Cheng was silent for a moment, then said, "I'm thinking about someone."
Fu Le's ears suddenly pricked up, he turned his head to look at Jing Cheng, his eyes gleaming with gossip.
"Is it very important?" Qin Yan frowned and said, "You don't even know how to look at the road."
Only then did Jing Cheng realize that there was a big pit in front of him - this scene was too familiar.
He made a fool of himself twice in the same place. He was really embarrassed.
"..." Jing Cheng said with an embarrassed look on his face, and blurted out without even thinking, "He's a very important person."
Fu Le laughed, and made faces at Qin Yan, mouthing: Brother Yan, you’re cheating.
As expected, Qin Yan's eyes dimmed and his voice was hoarse: "...Can I ask who this person is?"
Jing Cheng almost immediately heard that his tone was wrong. Although he didn't know why he asked him in such a complaining tone, Jing Cheng keenly sensed a strange atmosphere.
As a straight man who has been single for more than 20 years, he has no idea how this strange atmosphere came about, nor can he explain what it represents.
But he inexplicably developed an emotion called "guilty conscience" in his heart.
It's really weird.
Jing Cheng paused for a long while without saying anything.
Just when Qin Yan thought he would not answer, Jing Cheng came back to his senses and suddenly said in a cold voice: "He is a very hateful person."
Qin Yan was stunned: "What?"
"A stupid, rampant, beastly lunatic."
Jing Cheng turned his head and stared at the house belonging to "Mr. Peng" right in front of him, and answered word by word.
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The author has something to say:
I'm a bit stuck. The big boss is still alive in other people's mouths. Let's wait for the next chapter to let him appear_(:з」∠)_
Thanks to Lan Er's cute Lei and Huan Lie'er's cute nutrient solution~
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